StarChaser
Veteran Member
Google BioDiesel in your area. The ones around my area will come and get fuel oil, motor oil, and of course food oils. Its worth a shot if nothing else.
The small centrifuges that get their spin from oil pressure are only slightly better than some bypass filters. Some other bypass filters do a better job. You need high rpms to separate out the debris and water. And that takes a motor spinning the bowl.
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lots of good ideas here, thanks. The restaurant next to my office recycles their nasty cooking oil, so I'll ask that company. I used to have a waste oil heater..two shops ago. I'm just moving my home and was trying to avoid moving 4 55 gallon drums, but I may be faced with that..then get rid of it 5 gallons at a time...ick. I have a forklift and big trailer, so moving it is no problem.
Right now you believe it is just used motor oil. An analysis might indicate it contains PCB's. You then have documented evidence that you have a highly toxic product. You must now dispose of it properly by contacting and paying an environmental cleanup co.
Or... you could just go to walmart and buy a bunch of 5 gal gas containers. Decant the oil and then bring it to local town recycle day.
I've run into an interesting problem. For decades, I've saved my used motor oil in 55 gallon drums. Used to be, if you had 200 gallons, the distributors would actually come, drain the barrels and pay you. Not a lot, but enough. Then about ten years ago, they stopped paying, but would still come and pump the barrels....for free.
I began calling around a week or so ago, and holy buckets...I'm being quoted upwards of 700 bucks to come and pump the barrels. I've even offered to deliver the barrels, but no luck.
Its funny that if you have 5 gallons or less, lots of places will take it, but not if you have it by the barrel.
So, any thoughts about who might want a bunch of oil? I put an add on Craigs List to see if any of the guys with oil burning heaters wanted it....but no luck so far. I'm certainly not interested in dumping it all in to 5 gallon jugs and stopping at O'Reiley's every day on the way home from work.
Hell...I'm a democrat in a liberal state and you'd think all the government folks would be waiting in line to hug me for being in favor of and practicing conservation....but nah...
What harm do PCB's do if present in the waste oil stream? Not being snarky, just ignorant.
Must admit to being a bit baffled as to why anyone would choose voluntarily to accumulate 55 gallons of used engine oil unless directly involved in servicing oil exchanges commercially.
Must admit to being a bit baffled as to why anyone would choose voluntarily to accumulate 55 gallons of used engine oil unless directly involved in servicing oil exchanges commercially.
It might become more valuable depending how world oil supply pans out.I think the OP described why in his first post. By accumulating a large enough amount, he could sell his used oil. That is a pretty good reason to me. Then he found he couldn’t sell it, but it was probably still easier to just store it until he had enough to make it worthwhile for a recycler to come and pick up. Unfortunately, the market has changed since the last time, which has led to his understandable dilemma.
A political delusion of the past? Is it reasonable to conclude that the earth does not have a finite supply of oil? At some point, the oil supply will be fully consumed. Then what. Oil is essential to much more than internal combustion engines. Think plastic folks. No oil, no plastics. To my mind, we need to conserve the finite supply of oil for products other than gasoline and diesel fuel."It might become more valuable depending how world oil supply pans out."
"Peak oil" is a political delusion of the past.
Many marinas and boat yards have a 200-400g waste oil tank that is used to accept used oil.
Traveling dumping 8 gal has not been a hassle , although not every marina has the facility.
What harm do PCB's do if present in the waste oil stream? Not being snarky, just ignorant.
A political delusion of the past? Is it reasonable to conclude that the earth does not have a finite supply of oil? At some point, the oil supply will be fully consumed. Then what. Oil is essential to much more than internal combustion engines. Think plastic folks. No oil, no plastics. To my mind, we need to conserve the finite supply of oil for products other than gasoline and diesel fuel.
Yeah. Before I bought my current centrifuge, I looked into these. They do remove debris, but only slightly better than some bypass filters. And a filter just gets changed, you don't have to scrape out the bowl. The one shown is designed to be mounted on one engine and run when ever there is oil pressure. The higher the pressure, the faster it turns and removes more and smaller debris. But it's too slow. Mine made by high speed WVO centrifuges, Algae centrifuge, Oil Centrifuge, oil transfer pumps and drum heaters. - US Filtermaxx does a faster, better job. Before choosing I read several blogs. Several had been using the one in the pic and changed to my type. Comments were uniform in stating theusfiltermax removed much more debris in 10% of the time the smaller one.
The local recycle drives are intended to help people who are trying to get rid of their old paint, lube oil, and wastes when they clean out the garage – not to recycle on a volume/commercial basis.
Exactly. Too many regulations. Don't get me started.I was going to equate, “democrat in a liberal state” to the problem you’re having, but I won’t go there!
NWSeadog has it right. Disposal facilities assume your drum is full of unknown hazardous waste other than used engine oil. Therefore, it needs extensive analysis and a report from a certified analytical laboratory. Hence the high cost. Dispose of your used oil slowly to avoid charges.
I’m in the business of cleaning up hazmat spills caused by the trucking and transportation industry. So don’t make fun of my livelihood !
Just the other day, the news on TV reported the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, that have been an active oil seep for thousands of years, was acting up. Seems that oil and asphalt is seeping up in an adjacent parking lot across the street from the tar pits. Los Angeles County Department of Health tells us to “move along”, the petroleum oil and natural asphalt is harmless.
The same health department orders our clients to remediate the same material to very difficult-to-achieve standards!
Follow the dollars...
I did not say oil is in short supply. I did say that it would someday run out, date unknown, but, indeed, it will run out. Should those alive today, young and old, worry about that? I don't know. What I do think is that, at some point in the future, oil will become dear.Oil is not in short supply. Peak oil a now proven myth. One can always state oil is short term finite, as did Jimmy Carter, but the oil geologists well know otherwise.